Rackham has announced that they’ll be releasing a new racing game sometime in 2009, Rush ‘n Crush.  But this one’s special – realizing that there is a glut of new racing games entering the market (including the most excellent Formula D and Moto GP), they’ve decided to take a game that’s been available as a print and play game for three years!  The game is set in the larger AT-43 universe which makes it feel a bit like Blood Bowl from where I’m sitting…  The preliminary artwork looks good and no one does plastic minis as well as Rackham, but will anyone really care by the time it releases?

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Gogogic, an Icelandic video game maker, has decided to produce a board game called Kreppuspilið, which means “recession” in Icelandic.

Why? According to their blog:

The concept was brought to us by Valur Þór Gunnarsson, a business contact that lost his job in October through mass layoffs that were in direct connection to Iceland’s declining economy.

Valur instantly became committed to doing something new, fun and creative – never allowing the situation to drag him down. After a couple of weeks of idea work “Kreppuspilið” was born and he decided to talk to us about producing it. Since it is an absolutely crazy idea –  to design, produce, market and sell a board game in just over a month – we decided to commit to the project, mainly because we love crazy ideas.

What can I say about the board game? I have no idea. The information is all in Icelandic.

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The Tate Modern Museum in London will be showing an exhibit entitled “The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space” from December 16 to February 1. One of the exhibits is a board game by artist Nina Edge:

For The Fifth Floor she has devised a board game entitled 5D Everything. Played on five layers and based on solitaire, it combines elements of chance and player preference. Each counter is assigned a different value or meaning symbolising different elements of life, the 5th element signifying imagination.

By playing the game the player ’selects’ counters – or values – which are eliminated from the board, finally leaving five counters that express our hopes, aspirations and fears. You are all invited to the exhibition to engage in this game of chance where fate and process intermingle.

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I’m a little in love with this Peanuts Chess set. Also by USAopoly.

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Clue now comes as Clue – Dungeons & Dragons, a themed edition from USAopoly.

In addition to the D&D themed characters and weapons, you get a deck of wandering monsters that you have to fight. Win and gain a bonus, lose and get lost in the maze in the middle of the board.

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Armenia won the Chess Olympiad for the second straight time. Israel took second place, and the U.S. took bronze.

Russia failed to place first or second, something they managed to do for the fifty years prior to the last Olympiad.

The next one is schedule in Khanty-Maniysk, Russia in 2010.

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Already itching for new Formula D race tracks? Perhaps this will help. It’s a print-and-paste-on modification to the original street-racing track—a high-risk shortcut activated by pressure plates.

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